Gardening – July 2022 – Caroline Kenzie
Summer is in full glory in July, there is never a moment to sit still! Vegetable patches are heaving with the weight of ripening produce, as are fruit bushes, strawberry plants, tomatoes...
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Gardening – June 2022 – Caroline Kenzie
June – the month of the longest day. The highest number of sunshine hours available per day, the plants revel in the warmth and (inevitably!) the rain. Summer plants are putting on...
Gardening – May 2022 – Caroline Kenzie
I think May has to be the prettiest month. Whereas October can produce glorious colours, there is nothing like the blanket of spring flowers that appear in May. The hedges and verges...
Gardening – April 2022 – Caroline Kenzie
April, the glorious month of spring! But as recent years have shown, it’s still a good idea to have some horticultural fleece to hand in case of a turn in the weather...
Gardening – March 2022 – Caroline Kenzie
Wasn’t February a wild month? Certainly for the second half! I hope not too much damage has been done around the Roseland, however it’s hard not to notice freshly cut tree stumps...
Gardening – February 2022 – Caroline Kenzie
February can be misleading. Sometimes, here on the Roseland with our little microclimate, it can lull us in to a false sense of spring with warm sunshine and brave spring flowers. But...
Gardening – January 2022 – Caroline Kenzie
January – often a calm month, although sometimes a gloomy month, with days of featureless grey. A little brighter here, a touch of mizzle there. And those bright, sharp days that are...
Gardening – December 2021 – Helen Robins
Roseland Online, December 2021 Winter colour. At a time when the weather is not conducive to spending hours in the garden, it’s tempting to think we don’t need colour to look at. ...
Gardening – November 2021 – Helen Robins
Roseland Online, November 2021 There’s no doubting one thing: the seasons move on around us regardless of everything that’s happened over the last 18 months, and our plants are telling us it’s...
Gardening – October 2021 – Helen Robins
Although it remains mild at the moment, summer is most definitely in the past for this year. Still without many of the Autumn Shows that usually mark the transition from summer to...